Burning items in inventory when low sanity? (+more)

[flipwix]

I'm still pretty new to modding Don't Starve Together, so I apologize for the clunkiness of this, but I figured it was worth asking for help or pointers on what I could look into.

I'm trying to make a mod that rebalances Willow; for this reason, I'm trying to put everything into the modmain.lua file if I can, rather than using a prefab or patch of any kind, because I read that putting it in the modmain reduces the risk of conflicts with other mods when it comes to modifying base game things.

The intention is to make Willow totally immune to fire and more heat resistant but also give her some nerfs to compensate. Her max health, max sanity, and max hunger are all slightly lower (by 10 points), she loses sanity at a slightly faster rate, she is slowed by rain and has a higher sanity penalty from it, and... the last idea is the one I'm really struggling with, though it's also fully possible I've actually failed at coding the previous nerfs, as I haven't tested them yet.

The last idea would be for Willow to have a random chance to burn up items in her inventory when at low sanity, instead of DS's original 'starting fires when low sanity' drawback. I struggled for a while to figure out how to do this, before settling on this only applying to equipped items she is currently in the process of using (such as tools) as I'm not sure how I would go about doing anything else.

This is the entirety of the modmain.lua file as it is currently.

local TUNING = GLOBAL.TUNING
local STRINGS = GLOBAL.STRINGS

TUNING.WILLOW_FIRE_DAMAGE = 0.0

GLOBAL.STRINGS.CHARACTERS.WILLOW.ANNOUNCE_BURNTITEMINV = "Whoops. I was really itching to burn something."
GLOBAL.STRINGS.CHARACTERS.WILLOW.ANNOUNCE_BURNTITEMOOPS = "Oops. Something needed to go up in flames."
GLOBAL.STRINGS.CHARACTERS.WILLOW.ANNOUNCE_BURNTITEMJOY = "Well, it's not my fault I love watching things burn."

AddPrefabPostInit("willow", function(inst)
	inst.components.sanity.night_drain_mult = 1.1
	inst.components.sanity.neg_aura_mult = 1.1
	inst.components.temperature.inherentinsulation = -TUNING.INSULATION_SMALL
    inst.components.temperature.inherentsummerinsulation = TUNING.INSULATION_MEDIUM
    inst.components.sanity:SetMax(0.916667*TUNING.WILLOW_SANITY)	
    inst.components.health:SetMaxHealth(0.93334*TUNING.WILLOW_HEALTH)
    inst.components.hunger:SetMax(0.93334*TUNING.WILLOW_HUNGER)
	inst.components.health.fire_damage_scale = 0.0
local rain_mitigation = false
    for k,v in pairs (inst.components.inventory.equipslots) do
        if v:HasTag("waterproofer") then
            rain_mitigation = true
        end
    end
	local function slowedbyrain(inst, israining)
		if israining and not rain_mitigation then
			inst.components.locomotor:SetExternalSpeedMultiplier(inst, "rain_speed_debuff", 0.8)
		else
        inst.components.locomotor:SetExternalSpeedMultiplier(inst, "rain_speed_debuff", 1)
		end
	end
	local function extraraindebuff(inst, israining)
		if israining and not rain_mitigation then
			inst.components.sanity.neg_aura_mult = 1.3
		else
        	inst.components.sanity.neg_aura_mult = 1.1
		end
	end	
	local low_sanity_item_burn_risk = false
        if inst.components.sanity.currentsanity:GetPercent() < 0.25 then
            low_sanity_item_burn_risk = true
        end
    end
	local function accidentalitemburn(inst, low_sanity_item_burn_risk)
		if low_sanity_item_burn_risk then
			inst.ListenForEvent("working", function(inst, data)
			local tool
			local randomchance = math.random(1,50)
			local tool_burn = inst.components.inventory:GetEquippedItem(EQUIPSLOTS.HANDS)
			tool = tool_burn and tool_burn
				if tool and randomchance == 1 then
				inst.components.talker:Say(GLOBAL.GetString("ANNOUNCE_BURNTITEMINV" or "ANNOUNCE_BURNTITEMOOPS" or "ANNOUNCE_BURNTITEMJOY"))
				--this is where i'd put the 'burn item' code if i knew how to do that...
				end
			end)
		end
	end
end)

GLOBAL.STRINGS.CHARACTER_DESCRIPTIONS.willow = "*Immune to fire damage \n*Can craft a cuddly bear and sweet lighter \n*Burns things up when nervous"

if not GLOBAL.TheNet:GetIsServer() then return end

Does this look even close to right so far? If not, what do I need to change and where have I gone wrong? If so... does anyone have any direction they can point me to figure out how to make equipped tools 'burn'? If all that can be is the item disappearing while the burning sound effect plays, that's fine by me; it would be even better if I could make ash fall onto the ground, but I'm new to this and trying to be realistic.

Any help or feedback is very much appreciated!

Edited September 17, 2022 by flipwix

[hhh2]

Seems fine. In general and for all programming, you should avoid burying `magic numbers' like 1.1, 1.3, 0.25. It's a terrible habit to pick up and will haunt you in bigger programs. That's all I have to comment; you seem to know what you are doing.